Re: [APML] Star Trails Question

["Steve Lindsey" <stevelindsey@earthlink.net>]

Thanks Ray.  I agree about the foreground subject.  When my shot started
Polaris was stright above the OTA but I didn't think about where it was
headed for 5 hours!

Steve



> Hi Steve,
> What's wrong with that one?? I like it. I have a couple here if your
interested. http://www.pbase.com/rodo/windmills
> I live in N. Calif and take this kind of photo right along.
> I work in the range of f-5.6 to 8 for over 3 hrs but who knows.I use a
16mm and 24mm Oly OM2m, with 400 something usually Fuji. I think the
squiggle lines are caused by us walking around the tripod. I am amazed how
much the earth moves a tripod as we walk carefully to avoid the squiggles.
> I haven't yet used E200 but everyone on the list uses it and Kodak police
I think it is LE=law enforcement,don't know where to get it.
> I think the most improvement will come with Foreground Subject What do you
think??
> Ray Rochelle
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Lindsey" <stevelindsey@earthlink.net>
> To: "APML" <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:23 PM
> Subject: [APML] Star Trails Question
>
>
> > Hi folks.  I tried one of my few attempts at a star trail shot from the
last
> > new moon that raised 2 questions:
> >
> > 1. Have no idea what good processing is for star trails.  Just guessed.
Any
> > suggestions?
> > 2. How does one scale the image such that the trails don't look so
broken up
> > on a 1024 x 768 monitor which I always assume most people view images
from
> > or are you just stuck as a result of the monitor settings?
> >
> > http://home.earthlink.net/%7estevelindsey/Trails.html
> >
> > Input appreciated.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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